The Black Death & The Video Revolution – what does it mean for you?
Don’t move the camera… In 1347, The Black Death, as it was called then, or the bubonic plague, swept across Europe with a vengence. Within a few months, more than one third of the population was dead. In some towns...
Read moreBBC Approves Canon XF300
Professional just got a whole lot less expensive Many thanks to Kevin Johnson at b-roll.net for this update The BBC, the premier quality broadcaster in the world just released its new production guidelines for 2010. Among the many requirements...
Read moreFlash – This Just In!
Can you guys embed video? I am down at the US Government Run Telegraph Office filing my blog this morning. That would be the US Government Supported Telegraph Office. That would be the result of the US Government bail-out...
Read moreMy Life on B-roll.net
Television professionals… and then again….a few others… About 7 years ago, I got an email from a professional cameraman who identified himself as ‘Ivan’ He asked if it was true that I was training producers and journalists to shoot...
Read moreDSLR vs. Film
I think you’re going to like this picture… Since video first appeared there was no question that film was vastly superior. When video moved into newsrooms with the first big RCA cameras, conventional cameramen who had spent their lives...
Read moreMore on ABC’s VJ Flip
Dutch Public TV in 2004 is now ABC News in 2010….eventually all things come ABC News’ decision to embrace the VJ model is apparently going to go much deeper than we first thought. What appeared to be a mere...
Read moreWhy Journalism Failed
key to survival A posting on b-roll.net and a conversation at lunch yesterday with Kevin Klose, former President of NPR and new Dean of the Phillip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland gave me food for...
Read moreAny Idiot Can Do This
Which way to the unemployment line? Yesterday, I was quoted in an interview with Randy Dotinga of The Voice of San Diego talking about video saying “any idiot can shoot good basic video”. Over at b-roll.net, ‘chestfever’ responded by...
Read moreThe Cameraman Speaks
The quandry for professional cameramen – Jim Long contemplates the future Alex Lucas was a VJ that I trained in Nashville at WKRN. He was a cameraman making the transition to VJ. He was very good at it. About...
Read more"Did Rosenblum Abandon Us?"
Nice guy Kevin Johnson has been running a lovely website for professional cameramen for years called b-roll.net. About 5 years ago, I was invited to participate on the site in a discussion about a rumor that ‘Ivan’ had heard...
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